About

Being an entrepreneur is not in my blood. I don’t have a Chinese blood — I’m half Pinoy and half Bicolano. Ok, if you didn’t get the joke, never mind. My parents weren’t engaged in any business. I learned about business in college. But being an accounting student, I learned only half of it — half management and half numbers.

And so when I started Team Sparrow, Inc. in 2001, I’m clueless of what I was doing. There were times when I hit the wall and didn’t know what to do — no one is mentoring me, nothing is available in the books — I just do whatever sounds logical to me. And so there were mistakes, huge ones. Needless to say, I learned a lot from those mistakes. The painful way. After 7 years, after the ups and downs, I feel like this is the only time where I can say I’m ready to do business. But still, not quite.

It is my hope to share my journey, learning — and unlearning — in this blog to encourage everyone who feels like they want to jump into entrepreneurship but thinks they are incapable of doing so. This will be raw — you’ll see successes and failures, ups and downs. Unfiltered. Unedited.

This is Arnold Gamboa. Techie. Entrepreneur. Welcome to PINOY TECHNOPRENEUR - A Pinoy tech guy's journey to entrepreneurship.